Editing Via Monte Napoleone (section)

==History==
The street traces the Roman city walls erected by Emperor [[Maximian]]. In 1783, a financial institution known as the Monte Camerale di Santa Teresa opened there in Palazzo Marliani, with the function of managing the public debt. In 1786 the street itself was named after the ''monte''.<ref>For a ''monte'' as a financial institution, cf. [[Monte di Pietà]].</ref> The bank was closed in 1796 but re-opened in 1804, when Milan was capital of the Napoleonic [[Italian Republic (Napoleonic)|Italian Republic]], as the Monte Napoleone: from this the street derived its current name. During the first part of the 19th century the street was almost entirely rebuilt in the [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] manner with palaces inhabited by the highest of the aristocracy. Notable buildings from this period are [[Palazzo Melzi di Cusano]], [[Palazzo Gavazzi]], [[Palazzo Carcassola Grandi]], and [[Palazzetto Taverna]]. The much earlier Palazzo Marliani however, regarded as one of the finest houses to survive from the era of the [[Sforza]], was preserved until its destruction during the Allied bombing campaign of 1943.<ref name="trivulzio"/><ref name="gorni"/><ref name="buzzi"/><ref name="tci-milano"/>

After [[World War II]], Via Monte Napoleone became one of the leading streets in international fashion, somewhat equivalent to [[Paris]]' [[Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré]], [[Rome]]'s [[Via Condotti]], [[London]]'s [[Bond Street]] and [[Sloane Street]], [[Los Angeles]]' [[Rodeo Drive]], [[Florence]]'s [[Via de' Tornabuoni]], Berlin's [[Kurfürstendamm]] and New York's [[Fifth Avenue]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}

[[Caffè Cova]], founded in 1817 and one of the city's oldest [[café]]s and confectioners, relocated to Via Monte Napoleone in 1950 from its original premises next to the [[Teatro alla Scala]].<ref name="cova"/>